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    A Faithful Heart: Daily Guide for Joyful Living
    A Faithful Heart: Daily Guide for Joyful Living
    A Faithful Heart: Daily Guide for Joyful Living
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    A Faithful Heart: Daily Guide for Joyful Living

    By Sally Dyck

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    Passionate  Called  Holy  Equipped  Joyful  Loving  Learning  Authentic 

    These eight words, so simple on a page, yet when they are lived out daily they will change your heart and the hearts of those around you. A Faithful Heart is an eight-week journey into these words. Follow along and find yourself strengthening your heart and experiencing God in a powerful way. In the pages of this book, Sally Dyck combines Scripture, engaging stories, and the faith of Mary to encourage women to grow and share their heart.

    Experience A Faithful Heart on your own or as part of a community of women who want to open themselves up to the richness of God's daily presence.

    A separate Leader Guide is available order item #9781426710834 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2011
    ISBN9781426733536
    A Faithful Heart: Daily Guide for Joyful Living
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    Sally Dyck

    Sally Dyck is bishop of the Minnesota Conference of The United Methodist Church. She received theological training from Boston University School of Theology (M. Div., 1978), University of Geneva/World Council of Churches (graduate certificate, 1978), and United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio (D. Min., Black Church Studies, 1989). Her upbringing in a Mennonite home instilled in her the understanding that personal piety is inextricably woven to peace and justice advocacy. She has been married to the Rev. Kenneth Ehrman, a United Methodist elder, since 1976. The two have traveled the globe together by plane, bicycle, and on foot.

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      A Faithful Heart - Sally Dyck

      A   FAITHFUL  HEART

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      ABINGDON PRESS

      Nashville

      A FAITHFUL HEART

      DAILY GUIDE FOR JOYFUL LIVING

      Copyright © 2010 by Abingdon Press

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission can be addressed to Abingdon Press, P.O. Box 801, 201 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37202-0801, or e-mailed to permissions@abingdonpress.com.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      All Scripture quotations unless noted otherwise are taken from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations noted (NKJV™) are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations noted (NIV) are taken from the Holy Bible, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved throughout the world. Used by permission of International Bible Society.

      Scripture quotations noted (The Message) are taken from THE MESSAGE. Copyright © by Eugene H. Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

      ISBN 978-1-4267-0998-2

      10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19—10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      Contents

      Introduction

      Week 1 - Passionate

      Beloved of God

      Week 2 - Called

      Our Annunciation

      Week 3 - Holy

      Practicing Healthy Habits

      Week 4 - Equipped

      A Community of Faith

      Week 5 - Joyful

      An Evangelistic Heart

      Week 6 - Loving

      A World in Our Eyes

      Week 7 - Learning

      Discipleship as a Lifelong Adventure

      Week 8 - Authentic

      Living in Loving, Healthy Relationships

      Coming in December 2010 from

      Introduction

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      What is a faithful heart? And where do I get one?

      Through this resource, you may be surprised to discover that you already have a faithful heart, one that simply desires to grow in faithfulness, love, and joy. As you read, you will identify the characteristics of a faithful heart and recognize how to strengthen these in your daily living as well. You will discover that a faithful heart is, and is always striving to be,

      Passionate

      Called

      Holy

      Equipped

      Joyful

      Loving

      Learning

      Authentic

      In this book, I have used one of my favorite biblical characters—Mary, the mother of Jesus—as an example of someone with a faithful heart. Too often Mary gets lost in the nativity scene and is shrouded with all kinds of doctrinal questions. We lose sight of her growing, faithful heart as she trusted

      God in bearing Christ into the world, learned from Jesus throughout his earthly ministry, and was counted among his followers in the early church.

      There are other women—in my life and yours, too—who demonstrate a faithful heart. When we remember and recite their faithfulness, our own faith is strengthened. When we share our faith, others' hearts are strengthened. A faithful heart is one that is willing to stretch, grow, and share.

      While this resource can be used by the individual for personal meditation, study, and prayer, I encourage you to draw together a few friends or invite others in your church to join you as spiritual companions to share insights, ask questions, and probe further in the areas of the spiritual journey.

      One sign of a faithful heart is, I believe, a joyful life. A joyful life doesn't mean that we're happy all the time but rather that we are closely connected to God and others so that throughout the events of our lives we have the heart to face life's many demands and to appreciate the goodness in life with a sense of God's presence and support of others.

      I trust that as you read, study, and meditate on the theme each week, you'll discover a growing, faithful heart in yourself and each other and experience the practices that give us daily joy.

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      Week One

      Passionate: Beloved of God

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      Do you see God in your life every day?

      When we can sense and feel and therefore know the presence of God, it is the tangible presence of God in our lives. We touch, feel, perceive, sense, recognize, and notice God around and within us; God's presence is something that is obvious, evident, and plain. I want a passionate faith where I deeply sense God's presence in my life.

      Passionate is a confusing word, especially for people who are introverted. Passionate often implies a proscribed way in which one experiences God: a jumping up and down, raising your hands, and shouting out loud way of experiencing God. That may be unfair to the word passionate; its true meaning describes something that is ardent, fervent, and deeply felt. I want to deeply feel and experience God's presence. I want my expression of it to be authentic to whatever it is that I perceive, sense, and notice about God's presence in my life. Today. Any day. Any time.

      But why is it that sometimes we feel the presence of God and sometimes we don't? Why is it that some people seemingly sense God's presence in their lives more readily than others?

      N. Graham Standish suggests that just as there are multiple intelligences, such as emotional, musical, and intellectual intelligences—or ways of knowing—so there is a mystical intelligence which has to do with how aware we are of God's purpose, presence, and power. ¹ It's intriguing to think that just as people have varying degrees of intellectual, emotional, musical, and other intelligences, so we might also have a varying degree of mystical intelligence. A mystical intelligence simply means that we have a way of knowing God's presence through our mind, our senses, our feelings, and our intuition.

      Initially it might sound like we either have it or we don't, but Standish doesn't describe it that way. Likewise, the theory of multiple intelligences doesn't suggest that we either have one or another, but that we have a degree of any of the intelligences and we can cultivate them in our lives so as to enhance our ways of knowing, learning, and experiencing life.

      Throughout our readings, journaling, and prayer this week, we will explore the ways in which we experience the palpable, passionate presence of God in life's situations, look for God's goodness even when life is difficult and stressful, and seek God's will in our lives.

      ¹ N. Graham Standish, Humble Leadership: Being Radically Open to God's Guidance and Grace (The Alban Institute, 2007); p. 142.

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      You Are Beloved by God

      In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin's name was Mary. And he came to her and said, Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you! (Luke 1:26-28)

      Mary experienced the passionate presence of God in a messenger, Gabriel. In a specific time, in a specific region and town, a woman with a specific name and family connections received a message. In her everyday, ordinary life, God was present to Mary and God's presenting message to Mary was that she was beloved (or favored) and that God was with her. Repeat after me:

      I, (your name)____________________, am beloved by God, and God is with me today!

      Later when Jesus was baptized, he too heard the voice of God saying, You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased (Luke 3:22). God doesn't send us out into our everyday lives without the assurance that we're beloved and that God is with us to face the events of our lives.

      Messengers of God's love don't usually appear before us as celestial beings with gigantic wings. They are usually people that God sends our way with the message that we are loved, appreciated, and respected.

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      Day

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      Surely the Presence of the Lord Is in This Place

      "So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an

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